This Split Color Lobster is a Four Leaf Clover of the Sea

It's a one in 50 million find!

Add this to the ever growing list of awesome things to happen this week: an extremely rare split-color lobster was discovered off the coast of Maine. To the surprise of many, this one-in-50 million find—only outdone by the one in 100 million albino lobster—was discovered at the Pine Point Fisherman's Co-Op. Sadly, the fisherman responsible for the legendary catch remains anonymous.

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According to the Gulf of Maine Research Institute, this catch is especially unique, because the lobster has a brown body and an orange arm, whereas split-color lobsters are usually perfectly symmetrical. In addition it has a gender—female—whereas others of the same persuasion are normally hermaphrodites.

But don't expect to find this lady in your McDonald's lobster roll—though she probably tastes amazing, this rarity is being housed at the co-op until she finds a better home, likely in the Maine State Aquarium, where everyone can be dazzled by her charms.

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